A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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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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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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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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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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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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