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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”

Henry Ward Beecher

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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
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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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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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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