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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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 cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
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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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.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance

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