The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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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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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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