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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

Henry Ward Beecher

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View
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
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See 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
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
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
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
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
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World

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