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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom Obedience One Liner True
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
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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Afraid Defeat Goodness Reason Victory
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
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
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
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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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation

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