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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Henry Ward Beecher

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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
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Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.
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Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
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Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.
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A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.
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What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?
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Music cleanses the understanding inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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A book is a garden A book is an orchard A book is a storehouse A book is a party. It is company by the way it is a counselor it is a multitude of counselors.
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