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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Henry Ward Beecher

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth 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
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
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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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fear God Pilot Ship
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Blessing Finding Heart Heaven Thankful

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

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