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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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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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Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
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