The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you better look it up.
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See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true then your life will be also.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
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That for so many work is not a conscious choice but something that happens ... work is not the curse, drudgery is.
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