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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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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.
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