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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Beautiful Book Furniture Home
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
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
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
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
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
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
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
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
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
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Blessing Finding Heart Heaven Thankful

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