The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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