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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
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 dog is the god of frolic.
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Dog God One Liner
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
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
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
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
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Blossom Example Influence Person
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
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
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Man Nature Necessary Practice Profession Study Success

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

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