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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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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
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Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Never excuse yourself.
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A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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It is not work that kills men it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
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God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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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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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.
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