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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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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
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No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
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When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.
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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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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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