The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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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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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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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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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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