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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
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