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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

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
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
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
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
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
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
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
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
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Far Genius Kind Man

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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