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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
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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Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death Home Morning Time Vacation
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Institution Law Time True Wound
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Place Road Ruin Yourself
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
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View

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