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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.

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
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 things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Place Road Ruin Yourself
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Law Time Work
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Far Genius Kind Man
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
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Adversity Atmosphere Benefit Purify Reason Reflection Storm Time
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch

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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