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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYoung 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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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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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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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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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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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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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