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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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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
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Adversity Defeat Right Sweet Victory Yourself
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Man Nature Necessary Practice Profession Study Success
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
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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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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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
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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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait

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