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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
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
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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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
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
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Blessing Finding Heart Heaven Thankful
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
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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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
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
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
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance

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