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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
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
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
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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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
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
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
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
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
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
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
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

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