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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Henry Ward Beecher

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
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
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Equality Man People Sex Silence Smile Talk Woman
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
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
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
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
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
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
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
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

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

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