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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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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Life is a plant that grows out of death.
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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
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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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Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present the last is only the method of the first.
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Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
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Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.
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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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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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There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
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Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off not a stone goes through.
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