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

Henry Ward Beecher

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Law Time Work
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
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
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
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
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
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 you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Place Road Ruin Yourself
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself

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