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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher

A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View
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
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
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
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Cage Inspirational Potential Worth 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
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
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
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Blossom Example Influence Person

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