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

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Difference Oneself Perseverance Strong Willing
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Children Expectation Live Mom Myself Obedience
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Deck Strong Test Weakness
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
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
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Correct Fact Man Mistake
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
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 real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality

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