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God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Connecticut
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Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.
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