Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
HENRY WARD BEECHERCompassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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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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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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