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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
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
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Place Road Ruin Yourself
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Deep Exploration Ourselves Soul Thinking Wonderful
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
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Afraid Defeat Goodness Reason Victory
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

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