We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
HENRY WARD BEECHERInvolved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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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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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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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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