It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be … - Henry Ward Beecher

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There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life. . . I think I must have been crying for some attention.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

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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.

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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

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