No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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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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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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