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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Deep Exploration Ourselves Soul Thinking Wonderful
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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The dog is the god of frolic.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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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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