You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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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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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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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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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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