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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Law Time Work
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love Myself Worship
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Blessing Finding Heart Heaven Thankful
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
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
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
We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
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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Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
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

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