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

Henry Ward Beecher

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship
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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Compact Man Money Sale Value
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
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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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Correct Fact Man Mistake
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
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
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
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself

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