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Life 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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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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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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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