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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

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Institution Law Time True Wound
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Fish Hook Man Shop Small
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Place Road Ruin Yourself
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
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
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
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
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
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
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship
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

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