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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Blessing Finding Heart Heaven Thankful
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
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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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

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