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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
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
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Institution Law Time True Wound
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
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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Humor Person Road Spring
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death Home Morning Time Vacation
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
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
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 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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Blossom Example Influence Person
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich

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