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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
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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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Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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