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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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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Education will not come of itself it will never come unless you seek it it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work a woman made out of a man is His meanest.
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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.
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Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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