A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBlessed 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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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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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.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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