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

Henry Ward Beecher

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Equality Man People Sex Silence Smile Talk Woman
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
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
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
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
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
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
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
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
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
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
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
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
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
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
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start

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