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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
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Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
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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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The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.
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The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry and where is there a more kingly flower?
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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
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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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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
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