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Never ask a question if you can help it; and never let a thing go unknown for the lack of asking a question if you can't help it.
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The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
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If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.
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Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
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Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.
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I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.
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Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
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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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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
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Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.
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Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side of rivers. The bird sings in the branches, and the river sings below, but all the while the waters are undermining the soil about the roots, till, in some unsuspected hour, the tree falls with a crash into the stream; and then its nest is sunk, its home is gone, and the bird is a wanderer.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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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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When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.
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When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
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Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
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In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
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Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
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True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to us the most blessed of experiences, if we trust in him. Death is unclasping; joy, breaking out in the desert; the heart, come to its blossoming time! Do we call it dying when the bud bursts into flower?
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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
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If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
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Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Born:
June 24, 1813
Died:
March 8, 1887
(aged 73)
Bio:
Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial.
Known for:
Plymouth pulpit (1867)
Star Papers (1855)
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