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Love is the river of life in this world.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
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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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Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.
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Men can make an idol of the Bible.
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We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.
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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
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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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Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.
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Every man is full of music but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
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A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
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