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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
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
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Fish Hook Man Shop Small
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
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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Place Road Ruin Yourself
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
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
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
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
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll

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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