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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

Henry Ward Beecher

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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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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 keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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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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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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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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