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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

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking
The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
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
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Book Human Nature Store
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
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
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
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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Deserve Gratitude Humble Mindset Pride Thankful Thinking
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Blossom Example Influence Person
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself

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