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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 most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
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Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
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It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.
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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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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
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Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.
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As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm the best shares are plow shares and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
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