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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Henry Ward Beecher

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
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
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
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
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
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
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
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
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
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 Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
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

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