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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

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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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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.
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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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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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