Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say 'I have loved as truly and I have lived as decently as my dog.' And yet we call them 'only brutes'Henry Ward Beecher
Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands
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