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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 asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.
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When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.
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God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
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His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
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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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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present the last is only the method of the first.
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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
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Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it it belongs to human life the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
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A book is a garden A book is an orchard A book is a storehouse A book is a party. It is company by the way it is a counselor it is a multitude of counselors.
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