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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Adversity Atmosphere Benefit Purify Reason Reflection Storm Time
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
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
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Afraid Defeat Goodness Reason Victory
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
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
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
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
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
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

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