Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo 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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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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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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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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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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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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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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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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