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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
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
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
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
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 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
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Far Genius Kind Man
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom Obedience One Liner True

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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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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