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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

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
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
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
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
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
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
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School

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