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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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Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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I read for three things first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.
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