The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChristianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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