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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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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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When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.
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There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
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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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A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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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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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
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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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