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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Correct Fact Man Mistake
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life

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