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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
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
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
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
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
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
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Adversity Defeat Right Sweet Victory Yourself
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
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 meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
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
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth

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