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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

Henry Ward Beecher

The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
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
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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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
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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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
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
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship

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