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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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THERE are joys which long to be ours.
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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The elect, those who will the non-elect, those who won't.
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Life is a plant that grows out of death.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John it is the Gospel according to William it is the Gospel according to Mary it is the Gospel according to Henry and James it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.
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