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Love is the wine of existence.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Wine
Existence
Love

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Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.
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Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
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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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God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
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A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
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