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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

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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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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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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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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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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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