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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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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
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Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.
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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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Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The tree is but a huge boquet.
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Love is the wine of existence.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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I read for three things first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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