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Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
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
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
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
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
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
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
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Far Genius Kind Man
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature

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