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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

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See Yourself
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell

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