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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.

Henry Ward Beecher

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Art Common Happiness Power
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
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
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Correct Fact Man Mistake
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Excuse Home Religion Spread
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
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
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

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