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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

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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Place Road Ruin Yourself
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
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

Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
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
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master 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
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
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
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
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
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
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

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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