Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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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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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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