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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God Grace Help Himself Man
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Blessing Finding Heart Heaven Thankful
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
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
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
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life

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