No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
HENRY WARD BEECHERJoy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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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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