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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Henry Ward Beecher

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

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The dog is the god of frolic.

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

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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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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

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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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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

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