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Life is a plant that grows out of death.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Life

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
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Fear secretes acids but love and trust are sweet juices.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
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