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Education will not come of itself it will never come unless you seek it it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

Henry Ward Beecher

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No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
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I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.
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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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