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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Henry Ward Beecher

Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Excellence Judgment People Point Start Travel
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Man Sincere Sorrow
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
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
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
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Book Human Nature Store

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