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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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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.
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Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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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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Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
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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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You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.
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A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
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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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