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Love is the river of life in this world.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
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
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
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Corruption Government Ourselves Revolution Stand Vote
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
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
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
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
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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Easy Grave Hard Place World
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
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree

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