Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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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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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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