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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Henry Ward Beecher

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
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
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
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
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
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth
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
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
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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Blossom Example Influence Person

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