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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

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It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

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A church debt is the devil's salary.

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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

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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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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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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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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

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Faith is spiritualized imagination.

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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

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Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

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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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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

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