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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
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
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 world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Deck Strong Test Weakness
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Difference Oneself Perseverance Strong Willing
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
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
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick

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