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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
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A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
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There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
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As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.
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Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
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It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built and that is all anything is good for.
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Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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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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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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