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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

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Correct Fact Man Mistake
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Excellence Judgment People Point Start Travel
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
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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Difference Oneself Perseverance Strong Willing
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
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical

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

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