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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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Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
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All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
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There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.
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Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Everyone has conscience enough to hate few have religion enough to love.
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A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
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An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.
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