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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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A dull ax never loves grindstones.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.
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Caution and conservatism are expected of old age but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.
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Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off not a stone goes through.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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I never know how to worship until I know how to love.
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To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
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We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.
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Love is God's loaf and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, Give us this day our daily bread.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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