Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men.
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When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.Henry Ward Beecher
Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear.
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I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.
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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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See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true then your life will be also.
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