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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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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.
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Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
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Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
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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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Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
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Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
Henry Ward Beecher
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
Henry Ward Beecher
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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