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Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Adversity Defeat Right Sweet Victory 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
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
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
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
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 first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
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
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk

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