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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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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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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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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