Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
HENRY WARD BEECHERBe a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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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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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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