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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Deep Exploration Ourselves Soul Thinking Wonderful
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Adversity Atmosphere Benefit Purify Reason Reflection Storm Time
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Equality Man People Sex Silence Smile Talk Woman
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself

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