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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

Henry Ward Beecher

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
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
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Afraid Defeat Goodness Reason Victory
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
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
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
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
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Deserve Gratitude Humble Mindset Pride Thankful Thinking
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
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

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

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