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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.

Henry Ward Beecher

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Book Growth Honor Library
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See Yourself
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
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
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
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
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
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
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
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
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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Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical

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