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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.

Henry Ward Beecher

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
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
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
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
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
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom Obedience One Liner True
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
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
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See Yourself
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
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
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
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
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
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
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Blessing Finding Heart Heaven Thankful
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents

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