Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROur government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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That 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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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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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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