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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.

Henry Ward Beecher

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Blossom Example Influence Person
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
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
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Children Expectation Live Mom Myself Obedience
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Law Time Work
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
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
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.

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