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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.
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