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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
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
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Institution Law Time True Wound
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
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
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Far Genius Kind Man
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer

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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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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