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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.

Henry Ward Beecher

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
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
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
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
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking
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
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents

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