A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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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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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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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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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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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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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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