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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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Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
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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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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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Love is God's loaf and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, Give us this day our daily bread.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
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Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.
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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
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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 commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
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Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
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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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