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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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An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.
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I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, A man is dead, but angels throng about him saying, A man is born.
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Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
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To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
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It is not work that kills men it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
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There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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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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As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.
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The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
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The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
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