A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA 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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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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