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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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What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John it is the Gospel according to William it is the Gospel according to Mary it is the Gospel according to Henry and James it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.
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Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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