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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.
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The elect, those who will the non-elect, those who won't.
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Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm the best shares are plow shares and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
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Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it it belongs to human life the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Mirth is God's medicine.
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Men can make an idol of the Bible.
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God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
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Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.
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