Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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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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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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