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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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Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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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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Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
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Life is a plant that grows out of death.
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
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Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.
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A church debt is the devil's salary.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
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In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.
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Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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