Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAs warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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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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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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