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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

Henry Ward Beecher

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
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
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
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
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

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