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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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Fear secretes acids but love and trust are sweet juices.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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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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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm the best shares are plow shares and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
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The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
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Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.
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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
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Difficulties are God's errands and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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Love is God's loaf and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, Give us this day our daily bread.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
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