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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God Grace Help Himself Man
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Law Time Work
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
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
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Corruption Government Ourselves Revolution Stand Vote
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor
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
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
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
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
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
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
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

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