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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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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
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God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty second, liberty third, liberty.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
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The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.
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Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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