"It is sometimes of God's mercy that men……" — Henry Ward Beecher
"It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track and from ruin."
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Henry Ward Beecher
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