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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
Politician
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Life
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Death

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.
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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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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
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A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.
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Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
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Education will not come of itself it will never come unless you seek it it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
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