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The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

Henry Ward Beecher

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There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
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And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
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Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
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We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
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Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
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Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.
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