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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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Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.
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Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.
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