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

Henry Ward Beecher

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Place Road Ruin Yourself
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Deep Exploration Ourselves Soul Thinking Wonderful
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
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
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Man Sincere Sorrow
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship

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