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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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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 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
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
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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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
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
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature

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