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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Institution Law Time True Wound
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God Grace Help Himself Man
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Deep Exploration Ourselves Soul Thinking Wonderful
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Blessing Finding Heart Heaven Thankful
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
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
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
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
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success

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