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It takes a man to make a devil.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
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A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
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Every man is full of music but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
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As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
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Never excuse yourself.
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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