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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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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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Love is the river of life in this world.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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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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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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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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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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