Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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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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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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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 first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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