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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

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
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
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
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
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
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start
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
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
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
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Adversity Defeat Right Sweet Victory Yourself
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
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
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Book Human Nature Store
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

Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual

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