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A 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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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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.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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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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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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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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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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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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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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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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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