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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

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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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Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
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
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
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
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Place Road Ruin Yourself
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
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Adversity Atmosphere Benefit Purify Reason Reflection Storm Time
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Action Bad Class Human Open Secret
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
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
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave

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