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Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
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God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth sorrows bring heaven down close and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
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Mirth is God's medicine.
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A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
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Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty second, liberty third, liberty.
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As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.
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The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
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The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
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There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
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