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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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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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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.
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Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
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A coat that is not used, the moths eat and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him and they have poor food at that.
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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
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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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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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