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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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Love is God's loaf and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, Give us this day our daily bread.
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It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
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