He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
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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.Henry Ward Beecher
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If a man has come to that point where he is so 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 of which he ought to be changed into a mummy
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Christ is risen There is life, therefore, after death His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
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There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
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