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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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If a plant be uncouth, it has no attractions to us simply because it has been brought from the ends of the earth and is a "great rarity;" if it has beauty, it is none the less, but a great deal more attractive to us, because it is common.
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There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.
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There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
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I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
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The apple-tree is tough as an Indian, patient as an ox, and fruitful as the Jewish Rachael.
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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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Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
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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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Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.
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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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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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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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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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God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
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A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.
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So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
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They [birds] eat what they like, wipe their mouths on a limb, return thanks in a song, and wing away to a quiet nook to doze or meditate...
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it cannot spread itself in flower-clusters and wide-twining vines, so that the whole air is filled with the perfume thereof. But there is to be another summer for it yet. Care for the root now, and God will care for the top by and by.
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Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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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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