Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBlessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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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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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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