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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Henry Ward Beecher

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
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
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
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
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Easy Grave Hard Place World
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
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait

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