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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
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Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
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Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.
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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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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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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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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
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The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
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You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week
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Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.
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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
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