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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
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
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
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
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Deserve Gratitude Humble Mindset Pride Thankful Thinking
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
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
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
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School

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