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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

Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
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
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
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
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
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
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
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
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
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
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
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
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
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself

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