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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

Henry Ward Beecher

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
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
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
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
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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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Correct Fact Man Mistake
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong

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