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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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Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
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We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
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May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.
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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
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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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An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.
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Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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