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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Henry Ward Beecher

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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
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
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
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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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death Home Morning Time Vacation
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish

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