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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Children Expectation Live Mom Myself Obedience
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
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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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud

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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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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