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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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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.
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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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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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Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
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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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Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off not a stone goes through.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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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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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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