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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
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
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
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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Law Time Work
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
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
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Blossom Example Influence Person
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Excellence Judgment People Point Start Travel
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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