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If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
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My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
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Bu'' is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the ''Buts'' that could be said.
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Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
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He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, ''You Only Live Once.''
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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
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The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
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