A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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 Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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