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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work a woman made out of a man is His meanest.
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May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Education will not come of itself it will never come unless you seek it it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.
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The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.
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The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
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The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.
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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
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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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Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.
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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.
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Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.
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