In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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