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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

Henry Ward Beecher

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
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
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Fish Hook Man Shop Small
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
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 worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young

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