Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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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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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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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 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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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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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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There 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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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