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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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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
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There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week
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Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.
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Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.
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The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.
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A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
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Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
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It takes a man to make a devil and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
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Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
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The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
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Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
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