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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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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
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Difficulties are God's errands and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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I read for three things first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.
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Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
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Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.
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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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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
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A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
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The elect, those who will the non-elect, those who won't.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
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God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.
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A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
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