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

Henry Ward Beecher

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Far Genius Kind Man
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
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
The dog is the god of frolic.
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Dog God One Liner
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep

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