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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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 not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow
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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Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
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
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Library Life Necessary Oneself

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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