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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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Correct Fact Man Mistake
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
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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Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
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
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
The dog is the god of frolic.
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Dog God One Liner
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents

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