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Henry Ward Beecher
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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
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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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Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
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Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
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Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
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