In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
HENRY WARD BEECHERPeople 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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It 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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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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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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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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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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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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