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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
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
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
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
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Man Sincere Sorrow
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
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

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

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