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What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
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I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.
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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
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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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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
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All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
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Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
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A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.
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He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect.
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A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
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There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
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A cow is the saint of the barn-yard. She could be fat if she would only be selfish. But she economizes beauty that she may be profuse in milk.
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Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.
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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
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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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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving; and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.
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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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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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