It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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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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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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