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Henry Ward Beecher

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So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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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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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
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Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
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There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
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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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better nobler holier than it knows now.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Now comes the mystery.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
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The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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