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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

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
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
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
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
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
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
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor

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

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