Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

Henry Ward Beecher

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