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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start
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
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
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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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself

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