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Some people are proud of their humility.

Henry Ward Beecher

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
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
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
Some people are proud of their humility.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Humility People Proud
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
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
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
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 cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer

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