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" Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. "

Henry Ward Beecher

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" Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. "

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" Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. "

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" Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? "

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" The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. "

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" Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. "

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" Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. "

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" The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. "

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" If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. "

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" All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. "

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" I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. "

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" It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. "

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" A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. "

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