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Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Mirth is God's medicine.
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So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
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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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Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
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All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
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There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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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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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
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There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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