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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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Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.
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Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.
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Every man is full of music but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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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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God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
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