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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
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
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
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
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
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual

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