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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Henry Ward Beecher

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Institution Law Time True Wound
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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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Blessing Call Curse Name
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
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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Angel Born Death Friendship Grave Man
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
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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Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring

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