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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Adversity Atmosphere Benefit Purify Reason Reflection Storm Time
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
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
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Corruption Government Ourselves Revolution Stand Vote
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Deserve Gratitude Humble Mindset Pride Thankful Thinking
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God Grace Help Himself Man
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard 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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself

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