Some people are proud of their humility.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Men 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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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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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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