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What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!
Henry Ward Beecher
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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
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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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There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.
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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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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off not a stone goes through.
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Never excuse yourself.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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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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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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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
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