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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Newspapers

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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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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.
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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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We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.
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Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
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