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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Blessing Finding Heart Heaven Thankful
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
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
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 is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Deep Exploration Ourselves Soul Thinking Wonderful
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
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
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.
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Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
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
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
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
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
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

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