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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

Henry Ward Beecher

Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death Home Morning Time Vacation
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
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
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
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
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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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality

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