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The dog is the god of frolic.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
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I never know how to worship until I know how to love.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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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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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
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The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.
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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
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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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As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
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A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
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