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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
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