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Music cleanses the understanding inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.
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Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.
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Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.
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No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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