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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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 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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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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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 unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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