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Life is a plant that grows out of death.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
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The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Mirth is God's medicine.
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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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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No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
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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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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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