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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Henry Ward Beecher

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We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
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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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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
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Love is the wine of existence.
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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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October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.
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No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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