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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
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
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
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
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor
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
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See Yourself
The dog is the god of frolic.
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Dog God One Liner
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Forget Forgiveness Myself Way

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