No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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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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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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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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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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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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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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