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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

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor
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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Deck Strong Test Weakness
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
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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Far Genius Kind Man
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World

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