Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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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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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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