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There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
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Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
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I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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