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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.

Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Man Sincere Sorrow
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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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
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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Far Genius Kind Man
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking

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