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The beginning is the promise of the end.

Henry Ward Beecher

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
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
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
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
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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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
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
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
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

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