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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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Men can make an idol of the Bible.
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A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
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Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
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A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
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When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
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The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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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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Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
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Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable
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THERE are joys which long to be ours.
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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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There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
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As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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