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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
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
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
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
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
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
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
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
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
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
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
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Book Human Nature Store
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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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week 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
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
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
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear

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