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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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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
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Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
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A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.
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Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
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Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
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Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
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A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
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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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Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
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