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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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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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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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