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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
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
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
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
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
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.
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Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
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
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking

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