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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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 cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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