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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.
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Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
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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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Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
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The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty second, liberty third, liberty.
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Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.
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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
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The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.
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Never excuse yourself.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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I never know how to worship until I know how to love.
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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.
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There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week
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