Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
HENRY WARD BEECHERLife would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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