A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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