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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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