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Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Deserve Gratitude Humble Mindset Pride Thankful Thinking
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
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
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
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

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