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Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
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Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
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Life is a plant that grows out of death.
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A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
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