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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Henry Ward Beecher

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Difference Oneself Perseverance Strong Willing
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
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
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
The dog is the god of frolic.
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Dog God One Liner
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
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
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
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
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Adversity Atmosphere Benefit Purify Reason Reflection Storm Time

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