Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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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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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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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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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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