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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#efforts #governments #law #liberty #man

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion. ↗

— Michael Behe

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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