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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Man Nature Necessary Practice Profession Study Success
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Corruption Government Ourselves Revolution Stand Vote
We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship
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
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Adversity Defeat Right Sweet Victory Yourself
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
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 blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People

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