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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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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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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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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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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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