The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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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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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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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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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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