The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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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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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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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’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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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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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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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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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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In 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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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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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.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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