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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
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There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
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A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present the last is only the method of the first.
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Life is a plant that grows out of death.
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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
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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.
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Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.
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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
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