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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

Henry Ward Beecher

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
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
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Deep Exploration Ourselves Soul Thinking Wonderful
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
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
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
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

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