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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
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
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
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
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
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
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
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
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 no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

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