The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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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The 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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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