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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
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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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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
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If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm the best shares are plow shares and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
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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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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
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Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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