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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

Henry Ward Beecher

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
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
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God Grace Help Himself Man
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
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
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

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