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The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.
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Speak of the appetite for drink or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
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