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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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Minister
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Connecticut
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
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God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
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The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry and where is there a more kingly flower?
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Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.
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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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