The dog is the god of frolic.
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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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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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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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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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