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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Henry Ward Beecher

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blunt Government Rule
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God Grace Help Himself Man
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View
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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Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
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
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
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fall Sight Slip Yourself

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

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