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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
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
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
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
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Man Nature Necessary Practice Profession Study Success
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
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine

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