In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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