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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Henry Ward Beecher

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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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It takes a man to make a devil and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
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No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
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May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
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A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.
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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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Fear secretes acids but love and trust are sweet juices.
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There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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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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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
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Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
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Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
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