Henry Ward Beecher quote: "I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything."

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the othe...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the o...
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud ...
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Love is the river of life in the world.
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Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majorit...
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the ...
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Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of f...
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent compan...
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he ...
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which often...
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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ...
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
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Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority...
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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about hi...
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study an...
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has f...
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are ex...
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in hi...
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down...
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education...
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with frie...
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qua...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invent...
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who posse...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and t...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at al...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard figh...
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When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distres...
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than...
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occa...
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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road...
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, ...
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
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Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's ...
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No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that ...
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisib...
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the...
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Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so fa...
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

True obedience is true freedom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, ...
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the hous...
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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machiner...
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety--all this ru...
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, mor...
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equival...
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See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be al...
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Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new ...
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A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a ha...
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purp...
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The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
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There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. ...
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam o...
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveraciti...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
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The dog is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, b...
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Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise...
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from ...
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitud...
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they ...
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Now comes the mystery.
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Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which ...
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Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . ...
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that inve...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and t...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and th...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may hav...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
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The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Do not be afraid of defeat. you are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause
HENRY WARD BEECHER

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qua...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the othe...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he ...
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Faith is spiritualized imagination.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some hea...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used ri...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himse...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they wo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a h...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
HENRY WARD BEECHER

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on th...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some hav...
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As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden withou...
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and wou...
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by ...
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 y...
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds...
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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had ...
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

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