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Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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I never know how to worship until I know how to love.
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God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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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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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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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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All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!
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The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.
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Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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 religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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