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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Book Human Nature Store
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
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Difference Oneself Perseverance Strong Willing
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Correct Fact Man Mistake
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death Home Morning Time Vacation
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Deck Strong Test Weakness
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
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

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