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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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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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It takes a man to make a devil and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
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Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
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A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.
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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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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.
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A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.
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Our life is in the loom it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world then only shall we see the pattern.
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Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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