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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth
The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
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.
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Adversity Atmosphere Benefit Purify Reason Reflection Storm Time
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Law Time Work
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin

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