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If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.
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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.
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Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.
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Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.
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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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Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.
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There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
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As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.
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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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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.
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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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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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