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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

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
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
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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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
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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Law Time Work

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