You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf 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 are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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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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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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