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Mirth is God's medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.
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