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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.

Henry Ward Beecher

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
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
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
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
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
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
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
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Adversity Defeat Right Sweet Victory Yourself
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.

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