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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.

Henry Ward Beecher

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
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.
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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Beautiful Book Furniture Home
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
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
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
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
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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Coffee Good Offering Smell
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul

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