There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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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 what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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