Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThat 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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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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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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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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