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Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law
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The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
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THERE are joys which long to be ours.
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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
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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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Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
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The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
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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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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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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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