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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
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A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
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Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
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The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.
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