I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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 real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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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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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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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 never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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