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

Henry Ward Beecher

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Man Nature Necessary Practice Profession Study Success
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
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
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
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
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
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Far Genius Kind Man

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

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