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A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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