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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

Henry Ward Beecher

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
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
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
The dog is the god of frolic.
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Dog God One Liner
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Adversity Defeat Right Sweet Victory Yourself
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
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
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
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
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
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
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
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Law Time Work
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

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