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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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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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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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