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The dog is the god of frolic.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Deck Strong Test Weakness
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
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
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
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
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
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

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