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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
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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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
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
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
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
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself

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