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

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
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
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
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
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
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
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death Home Morning Time Vacation
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
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
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
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents

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