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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Been Before Bring Come Death Destructive Lighten never Such Thunder
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
Happy the eyes that can close
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Close Eye Happy One Liner
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Abate Change Men Prevent Rule Strive Very
Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Been Could Dwell Habit never

For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

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