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

Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Beautiful Book Furniture Home
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
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
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
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
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
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
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
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
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
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature

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