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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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When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
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Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
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When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
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A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
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Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
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The elect, those who will the non-elect, those who won't.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
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There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.
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