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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

— Henry Ward Beecher Life Thoughts (1858)

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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.

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When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.

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He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

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Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practise it while they hear.

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