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No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.
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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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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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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.
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Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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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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If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
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