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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

Henry Ward Beecher

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself
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 advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking
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
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason

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