It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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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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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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.
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