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

Henry Ward Beecher

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fear Push Truth Yourself
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
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 art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
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
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom Obedience One Liner True
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Man Nature Necessary Practice Profession Study Success
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
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 library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
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
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
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
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
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Excellence Judgment People Point Start Travel
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
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fish Hook Man Shop Small
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself

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

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