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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Adversity Defeat Right Sweet Victory Yourself
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
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
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Adversity Atmosphere Benefit Purify Reason Reflection Storm Time
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
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
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
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
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
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
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
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

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