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

Henry Ward Beecher

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Deck Strong Test Weakness
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See Yourself
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
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
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
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
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
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young

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