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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

Henry Ward Beecher

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Blossom Example Influence Person
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
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
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Man Sincere Sorrow
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry

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