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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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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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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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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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