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Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.
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There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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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Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
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Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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Music cleanses the understanding inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
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Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
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Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.
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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
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Truthfulness is godliness.
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It takes a man to make a devil.
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We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.
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Caution and conservatism are expected of old age but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.
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