When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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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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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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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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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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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A 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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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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