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Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off not a stone goes through.
Henry Ward Beecher
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If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
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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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Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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