We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
HENRY WARD BEECHERMen go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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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 unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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