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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
Henry Ward Beecher
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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It takes a man to make a devil.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
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Caution and conservatism are expected of old age but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.
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When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
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Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.
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Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.
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