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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual
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 one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
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
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
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Forever God Literature Point

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