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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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The elect, those who will the non-elect, those who won't.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present the last is only the method of the first.
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A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Education will not come of itself it will never come unless you seek it it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
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Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.
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Love is the wine of existence.
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The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.
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As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Our life is in the loom it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world then only shall we see the pattern.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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