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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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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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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
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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. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present the last is only the method of the first.
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.
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If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work a woman made out of a man is His meanest.
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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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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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Love is the wine of existence.
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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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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is it is when it is put to the test.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
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We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
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