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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
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Love is God's loaf and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, Give us this day our daily bread.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.
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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
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What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
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Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.
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All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
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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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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
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The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
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Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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