Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA 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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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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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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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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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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