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A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
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We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
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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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Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.
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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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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
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The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.
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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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His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
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See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true then will your life be such.
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
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Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.
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