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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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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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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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