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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
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Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Truth
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.
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