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		<title>Beecher, Henry Ward -- Life Thoughts (1858)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. Thus they become, as in the ancient fable, the harnessed steeds which bear the chariot of the sun.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. Thus they become, as in the ancient fable, the harnessed steeds which bear the chariot of the sun.</p>
<br><b>Henry Ward Beecher</b> (1813-1887) American clergyman and orator<br><i>Life Thoughts</i> (1858) 
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