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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
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Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.
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Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.
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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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Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
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As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
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There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
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Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
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Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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