A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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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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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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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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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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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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