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God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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A dull ax never loves grindstones.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
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Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
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Life is a plant that grows out of death.
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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
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A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.
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