Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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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 meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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