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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Born Man Page Start
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
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
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
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom Obedience One Liner True
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
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
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
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 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
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Difference Marriage Poor Wings

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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