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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death Home Morning Time Vacation
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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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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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Man Sincere Sorrow
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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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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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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The dog is the god of frolic.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life

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