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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
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Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it it belongs to human life the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
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Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
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What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John it is the Gospel according to William it is the Gospel according to Mary it is the Gospel according to Henry and James it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.
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The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, A man is dead, but angels throng about him saying, A man is born.
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Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
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