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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.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
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All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!
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Truthfulness is godliness.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
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Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.
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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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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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Love is God's loaf and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, Give us this day our daily bread.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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