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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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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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Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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He will see most without who has the best eyes within and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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