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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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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Difficulties are God's errands and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.
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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
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God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
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We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
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God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
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The truest self-respect is not to think of self.
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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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A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
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Now comes the mystery.
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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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