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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Deserve Gratitude Humble Mindset Pride Thankful Thinking
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
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
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Far Genius Kind Man
The dog is the god of frolic.
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Dog God One Liner
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst

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