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Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.
Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.
The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.
There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”