The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe 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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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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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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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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