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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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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A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
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Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
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Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
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Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
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Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.
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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.
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