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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
Common
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Newspapers

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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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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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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
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You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.
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