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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Henry Ward Beecher

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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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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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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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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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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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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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