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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

Henry Ward Beecher

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
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
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
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
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
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
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
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Correct Fact Man Mistake
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort

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