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Love is the world's river of life
Henry Ward Beecher
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth sorrows bring heaven down close and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.
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The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
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