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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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