If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age.
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A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.Henry Ward Beecher
Success is full of promise till men get it then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown.
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Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -
Henry Ward Beecher
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