In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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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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