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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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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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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 nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
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A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
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Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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