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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
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Living is death dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens on this side orphans, on that children.
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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
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The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
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Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
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Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
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If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
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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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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
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Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
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There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
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No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
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