We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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 never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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 head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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