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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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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
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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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start
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
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Children Expectation Live Mom Myself Obedience
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Far Genius Kind Man
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
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
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
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
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
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Man Nature Necessary Practice Profession Study Success
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
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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Afraid Defeat Goodness Reason Victory
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

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