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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

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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Institution Law Time True Wound
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
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
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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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
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
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
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
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual
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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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
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
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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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation

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