Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHappiness is not the end of life: character is.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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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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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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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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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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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.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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