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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

Henry Ward Beecher

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October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.
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As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work a woman made out of a man is His meanest.
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
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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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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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