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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Henry Ward Beecher

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
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
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
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk 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 cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Correct Fact Man Mistake
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World

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