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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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I read for three things first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
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