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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
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
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
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
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
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
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
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
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

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