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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Henry Ward Beecher

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
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
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Adversity Defeat Right Sweet Victory Yourself
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Instant Regret Requirement Time

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