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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

Henry Ward Beecher

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To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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