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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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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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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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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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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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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