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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

Henry Ward Beecher

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What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John it is the Gospel according to William it is the Gospel according to Mary it is the Gospel according to Henry and James it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.
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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
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Education will not come of itself it will never come unless you seek it it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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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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We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
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Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.
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Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
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Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.
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