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“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.”
“Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.”
“Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.”
“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”
“It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.”
“The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.”
“It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
“Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.”
“The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.”
“I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.”
“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.”
“A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.”
“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”
“Men's best successes come after their disappointments.”
“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”
“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.”
“You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.”
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”