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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Henry Ward Beecher

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
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
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
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
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
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
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
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking
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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Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
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
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

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.

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