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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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