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A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
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There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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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You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.
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Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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