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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.
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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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