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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Corruption Government Ourselves Revolution Stand Vote
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
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
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
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
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
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
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life

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