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

Henry Ward Beecher

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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
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
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
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
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Equality Man People Sex Silence Smile Talk Woman
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
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
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
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
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents

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