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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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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
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There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
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The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.
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Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.
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It takes a man to make a devil and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
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All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!
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