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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
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
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God Grace Help Himself Man
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
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
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Law Time Work
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
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
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
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
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow

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