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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
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
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
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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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
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
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Beautiful Book Furniture Home
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
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

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