When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.Henry Ward Beecher
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness.... But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother
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He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
Henry Ward Beecher
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
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