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

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Deserve Gratitude Humble Mindset Pride Thankful Thinking
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
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
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Hard Master Yourself
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
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
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade

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