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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God Grace Help Himself Man
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
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Cheating Man Selfish
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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Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
The things that hurt us teach us.
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Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Equality Man People Sex Silence Smile Talk Woman
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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Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean 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 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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Blossom Example Influence Person

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