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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

Henry Ward Beecher

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See Yourself
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
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
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 blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

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