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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

Henry Ward Beecher

“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
The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom Obedience One Liner True
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
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
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point

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