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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
The dog is the god of frolic.
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Dog God One Liner
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor
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
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
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
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
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
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.
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Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.

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