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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
Henry Ward Beecher
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built and that is all anything is good for.
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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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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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You may say, I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball. Providence won't. You must do it and if you do not, you are a dead man.
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I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
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A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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The truest self-respect is not to think of self.
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The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.
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A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
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A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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