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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
Journalist
Minister
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
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Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.
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God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.
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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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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!
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The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.
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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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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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