Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGreatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Sorrows, 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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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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.
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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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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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