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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
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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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As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.
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Never excuse yourself.
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There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
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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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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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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week
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Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
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Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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A dull ax never loves grindstones.
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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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There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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