A 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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTroubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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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The 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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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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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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