Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA 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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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