To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt 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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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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