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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.
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As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.
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It is not work that kills men it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
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As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.
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You may say, I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball. Providence won't. You must do it and if you do not, you are a dead man.
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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
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Truthfulness is godliness.
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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.
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Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
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O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.
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He will see most without who has the best eyes within and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
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A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
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A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty second, liberty third, liberty.
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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
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