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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher

Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom Obedience One Liner True
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
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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Fish Hook Man Shop Small
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
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
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
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
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
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Afraid Defeat Goodness Reason Victory
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
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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Blossom Example Influence Person
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
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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