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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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Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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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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Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
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Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
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As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.
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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
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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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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.
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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.
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