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Religion is using everything for God.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Litchfield (town)
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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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.
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A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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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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Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.
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Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.
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Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
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Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
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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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