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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Equality Man People Sex Silence Smile Talk Woman
That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Children Expectation Live Mom Myself Obedience
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
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
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
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
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word

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