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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
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
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
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
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
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
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Equality Man People Sex Silence Smile Talk Woman
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
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
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
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

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