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What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
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There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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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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Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.
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Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
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