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"There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away."

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About Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman and public speaker. He was a leading abolitionist voice before and during the American Civil War.

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