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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Henry Ward Beecher

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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Deck Strong Test Weakness
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
Love is the river of life in this world.
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Life Love River World
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Far Genius Kind Man
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Humor Person Road Spring
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God Grace Help Himself Man
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
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
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
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Oneself Secret

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