Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere 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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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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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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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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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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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