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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Henry Ward Beecher

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death Home Morning Time Vacation

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.

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