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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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Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.
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The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.
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When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
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No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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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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Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
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