Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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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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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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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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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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