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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Henry Ward Beecher

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
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 need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
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
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
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
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice

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