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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.

Henry Ward Beecher

Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
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
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
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
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
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
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Deserve Gratitude Humble Mindset Pride Thankful Thinking

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