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

Henry Ward Beecher

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
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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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
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
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
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
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
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
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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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Institution Law Time True Wound
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
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
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Fish Hook Man Shop Small
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
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
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents

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