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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Henry Ward Beecher

We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Adversity Atmosphere Benefit Purify Reason Reflection Storm Time
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
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
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
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
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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Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
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
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
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
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
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
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Deck Strong Test Weakness

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