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Sorrow makes men sincere.

Henry Ward Beecher

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Difference Oneself Perseverance Strong Willing
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
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
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
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
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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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side

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