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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Henry Ward Beecher

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Afraid Defeat Goodness Reason Victory
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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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
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
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
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
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
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
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start
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
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
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People

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