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A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty second, liberty third, liberty.
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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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A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
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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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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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