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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fear God Pilot Ship
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Access Door Each Other Reach Right
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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Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
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
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Deserve Gratitude Humble Mindset Pride Thankful Thinking
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
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Blessing Day Discover Finding Heaven Iron Mercy Thankful
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Dress Leaving Tree
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin

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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