The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLove is the river of life in this world.
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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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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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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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