In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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