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

Henry Ward Beecher

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Blossom Example Influence Person
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Corruption Government Ourselves Revolution Stand Vote
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
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Book Human Nature Store
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
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
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
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
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
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
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Excellence Judgment People Point Start Travel
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself

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