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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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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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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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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.
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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.
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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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O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
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