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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
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
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
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
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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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
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
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Afraid Defeat Goodness Reason Victory
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance

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