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To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
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To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
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To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
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To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
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To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
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Tombstone - An ugly reminder of one who has been forgotten.
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Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
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Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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True obedience is true freedom.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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