The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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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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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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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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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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