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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Henry Ward Beecher

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
The dog is the god of frolic.
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Dog God One Liner
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
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
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
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
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
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
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
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 best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence

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