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There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

Henry Ward Beecher

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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
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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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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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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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Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
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