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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

~Henry Ward Beecher

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 24th, 1813

Died: March 8th, 1887

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