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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
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
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
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
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
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death Home Morning Time Vacation
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
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
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
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
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

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