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

Henry Ward Beecher

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
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Forever God Literature Point
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
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 human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God Grace Help Himself Man
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
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom Obedience One Liner True
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Coffee Good Offering Smell
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Blossom Example Influence Person

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