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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
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
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Man Sincere Sorrow
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Corruption Government Ourselves Revolution Stand Vote
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
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Library Man Paint Portrait

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