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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Henry Ward Beecher

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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.
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Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.
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Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is it is when it is put to the test.
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There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
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The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.
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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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