A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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A church debt is the devil's salary.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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Love is the river of life in the world.
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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
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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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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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