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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death Home Morning Time Vacation
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
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
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
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
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
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

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