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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
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If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
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Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
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Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
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Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
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Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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Let every man come to God in his own way.
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