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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
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
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
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
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
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
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship

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