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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
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
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Law Time Work
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
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
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

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