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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

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.
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Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Library Life Necessary Oneself
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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Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Better Fashion God Tools Trouble
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Book Human Nature Store
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself
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
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Emotion Form Retainment Wave
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time

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