The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn 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.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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