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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.

Henry Ward Beecher

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
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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Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Institution Law Time True Wound
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.
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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
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
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
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual

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