Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHe is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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