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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Deserve Gratitude Humble Mindset Pride Thankful Thinking
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Law Time Work
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom Obedience One Liner True
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
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
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
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
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

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