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A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
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The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.
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Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
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