No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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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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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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