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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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A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
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Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
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Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
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Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
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There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
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