Sorrow makes men sincere.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDebt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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