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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.
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Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
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Difficulties are God's errands and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
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Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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