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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

Henry Ward Beecher

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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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