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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Henry Ward Beecher

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death Home Morning Time Vacation
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
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
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
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
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Far Genius Kind Man
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Excellence Judgment People Point Start Travel
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Afraid Defeat Goodness Reason Victory
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God Human Rich Soul Talk

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

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