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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Living is death dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens on this side orphans, on that children.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
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