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Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Henry Ward Beecher

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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.
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Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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It is not work that kills men it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
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And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
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