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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

Henry Ward Beecher

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
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
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
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
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
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 for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
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
“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
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 cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret

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