When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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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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It 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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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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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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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