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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.


Henry Ward Beecher

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