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It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built and that is all anything is good for.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will and see if you do not know of the doctrine.
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