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Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. View quote
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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. View quote
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A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns. View quote
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and hollyhock. View quote
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Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist. View quote
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty. View quote
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There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. View quote
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It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward. View quote
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No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself. View quote
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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged. View quote
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A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it. View quote
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There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion. View quote
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Living is death dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens on this side orphans, on that children. View quote
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A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. View quote
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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell. View quote
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Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top. View quote
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. View quote
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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God. View quote
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As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate. View quote
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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. View quote
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Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal. View quote
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If you attempt to beat a man down and so get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. View quote
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