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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Henry Ward Beecher

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
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
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
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
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
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
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Adversity Defeat Right Sweet Victory Yourself
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

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