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

Henry Ward Beecher

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
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
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
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
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Place Road Ruin Yourself
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
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
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.
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Children Expectation Live Mom Myself Obedience
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Man Sincere Sorrow
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Book Human Nature Store
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick

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

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