Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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.
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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