A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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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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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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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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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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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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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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