If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
HENRY WARD BEECHERBeauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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