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What I spent, I had What I kept, I lost What I gave, I have.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
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Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.
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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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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
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It takes a man to make a devil and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
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Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
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We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.
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We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by 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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Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.
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