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I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.
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What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!
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