It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSee 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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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 dog is the god of frolic.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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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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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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