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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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Adversity Atmosphere Benefit Purify Reason Reflection Storm Time
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
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
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance

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