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I read for three things first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm the best shares are plow shares and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
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The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
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A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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Life is a plant that grows out of death.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
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