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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
Journalist
Minister
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
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Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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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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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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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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Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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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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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.
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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
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It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
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