Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHERInvolved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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