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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

Henry Ward Beecher

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Book Human Nature Store
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
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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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
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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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

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