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What I spent, I had What I kept, I lost What I gave, I have.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
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Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.
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