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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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I never know how to worship until I know how to love.
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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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Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
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Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law
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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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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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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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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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A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.
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Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
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O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
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