The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWell married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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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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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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