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Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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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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Everyone has conscience enough to hate few have religion enough to love.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.
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