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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Henry Ward Beecher

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It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.
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And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
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As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.
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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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