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

Henry Ward Beecher

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
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
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
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
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
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
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
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Man Sincere Sorrow
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong

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