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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Henry Ward Beecher

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
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
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Fish Hook Man Shop Small
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
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
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
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
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
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
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
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
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
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success

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