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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See Yourself
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
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.
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Deck Strong Test Weakness
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
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
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
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
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
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
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
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

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