A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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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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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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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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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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