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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Henry Ward Beecher

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Equality Home Joy Tropical
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fish Hook Man Shop Small
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Correct Fact Man Mistake
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration Name Regret
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God Grace Help Himself Man
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Death Home Morning Time Vacation
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
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Emotion Form Retainment Wave

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