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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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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
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
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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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance

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