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

Henry Ward Beecher

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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth
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
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
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
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
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
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself

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