A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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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Some people are proud of their humility.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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