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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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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.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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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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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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