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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt 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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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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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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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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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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