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The beginning is the promise of the end.

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
The dog is the god of frolic.
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Dog God One Liner
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See Yourself
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
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
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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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Law Time Work
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant

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