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

Henry Ward Beecher

Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
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 difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Difference Oneself Perseverance Strong Willing
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Law Time Work
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
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
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself

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

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