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

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
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 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
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Place Road Ruin Yourself
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
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
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer

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

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