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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

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Book Human Nature Store
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
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
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
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
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See Yourself
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
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
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Far Genius Kind Man
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
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
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Adversity Atmosphere Benefit Purify Reason Reflection Storm Time
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success

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