Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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We 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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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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