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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.

Henry Ward Beecher

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
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
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
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Far Genius Kind 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
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
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
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
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

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.

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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.

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