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Education will not come of itself it will never come unless you seek it it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
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Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.
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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
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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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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth sorrows bring heaven down close and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.
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The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
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Caution and conservatism are expected of old age but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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