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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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Henry Ward Beecher
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Minister
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Litchfield (town)
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No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.
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As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Love is God's loaf and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, Give us this day our daily bread.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
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There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
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It takes a man to make a devil and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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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?
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All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
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We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
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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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Some people are proud of their humility.
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The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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