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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Henry Ward Beecher

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Place Road Ruin Yourself
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death Home Morning Time Vacation
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
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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Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
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
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Bad Goodness Influence
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

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