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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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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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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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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By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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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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There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law
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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
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