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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Deck Strong Test Weakness
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
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Beautiful Book Furniture Home
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
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.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
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
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom Obedience One Liner True
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
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

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