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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Henry Ward Beecher

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Difference Oneself Perseverance Strong Willing
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom Obedience One Liner True
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
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
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
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Beautiful Book Furniture Home
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
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
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
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
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
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
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
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Man Sincere Sorrow
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way

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