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

Henry Ward Beecher

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
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View
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
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God Grace Help Himself Man
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
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
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death Home Morning Time Vacation
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Beautiful Book Furniture Home
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation

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