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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Equality Man People Sex Silence Smile Talk Woman
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
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Man Sincere Sorrow
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Betterment Culture Help Social True Work
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
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
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
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
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
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
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself

Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.

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