The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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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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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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