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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Equality Man People Sex Silence Smile Talk Woman
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
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
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
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 best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
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
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
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
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
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
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Corruption Government Ourselves Revolution Stand Vote
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man

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