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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
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There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
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The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, A man is dead, but angels throng about him saying, A man is born.
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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
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A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
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Our life is in the loom it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world then only shall we see the pattern.
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Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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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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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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A man's character is the reality of himself his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him character resides in him, reputation in other people that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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