The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAdversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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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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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.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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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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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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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