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The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
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There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.
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The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
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Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.
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Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
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The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.
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An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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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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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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