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Love is the river of life in this world.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
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Our life is in the loom it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world then only shall we see the pattern.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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