Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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