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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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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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Truthfulness is godliness.
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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
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Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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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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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.
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You may say, I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball. Providence won't. You must do it and if you do not, you are a dead man.
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The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry and where is there a more kingly flower?
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
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Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
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