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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
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
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Fish Hook Man Shop Small
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Institution Law Time True Wound
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Blossom Example Influence Person
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
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
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Compact Man Money Sale Value
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Better Easy Hill Top View

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

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