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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Children Expectation Live Mom Myself Obedience
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Deck Strong Test Weakness
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
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
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
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
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
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
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul

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