There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Debt 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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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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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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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