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Henry Ward Beecher

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Law Time Work
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Deep Exploration Ourselves Soul Thinking Wonderful
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking

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