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

Henry Ward Beecher

God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Fish Hook Man Shop Small
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
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
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Beautiful Book Furniture Home
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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