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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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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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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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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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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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A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
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Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.
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