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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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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
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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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Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, A man is dead, but angels throng about him saying, A man is born.
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
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The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty second, liberty third, liberty.
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Mirth is God's medicine.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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