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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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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 advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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