Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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