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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Henry Ward Beecher

It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
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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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
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
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself
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
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
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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Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
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
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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Compact Man Money Sale Value
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
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
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
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
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek

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