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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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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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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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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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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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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