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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Fish Hook Man Shop Small
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
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
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
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
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word

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