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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

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
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
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
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
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Man Sincere Sorrow
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Deck Strong Test Weakness
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
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
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
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
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
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
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

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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