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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

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
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
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
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
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
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
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Difference Oneself Perseverance Strong Willing
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom Obedience One Liner True
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See Yourself
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
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
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection

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