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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John it is the Gospel according to William it is the Gospel according to Mary it is the Gospel according to Henry and James it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.
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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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Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.
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A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
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