People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.
There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
True obedience is true freedom.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
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