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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
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Gratitude is a twofold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
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Guns are part of the American identity.
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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
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Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
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Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
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He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.
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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
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