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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
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Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.
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The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
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