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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Mirth is God's medicine.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.
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We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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