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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
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
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Place Road Ruin Yourself
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
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
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Children Expectation Live Mom Myself Obedience
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
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
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
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
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Library Man Paint Portrait

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