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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Henry Ward Beecher

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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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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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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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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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