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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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It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
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The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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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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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.
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In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
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Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!
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A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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