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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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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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Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
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What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
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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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Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
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Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.
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