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No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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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No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
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As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.
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If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
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Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.
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Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
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There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
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Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
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No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
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Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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