A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDeath is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Our 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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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