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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
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
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking
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
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
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
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
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
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Deep Exploration Ourselves Soul Thinking Wonderful

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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