A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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