Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray
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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.Henry Ward Beecher
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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The real democratic idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that every one shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be what God made him
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms a
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