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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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There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth sorrows bring heaven down close and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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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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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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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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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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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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