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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
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
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Book Human Nature Store
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
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

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