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Now comes the mystery.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
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The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty second, liberty third, liberty.
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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
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A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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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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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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Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.
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Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
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No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.
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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
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Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.
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Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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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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A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
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