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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
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
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
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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Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
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
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
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
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance

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