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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Henry Ward Beecher

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
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
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
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
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
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
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War

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