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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Henry Ward Beecher

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Adversity Atmosphere Benefit Purify Reason Reflection Storm Time
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
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
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Equality Man People Sex Silence Smile Talk Woman
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Fall Sight Slip Yourself
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
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
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
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Neighbor See Yourself
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
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
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
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 head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

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