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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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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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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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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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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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