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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.

Henry Ward Beecher

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
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
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
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
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.

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