Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
HENRY WARD BEECHERMen’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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