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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Progress

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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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Speak of the appetite for drink or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.
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There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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