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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— 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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