Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
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Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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A man who does not love praise is not a full man.
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Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
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Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
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As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.
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Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.
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Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
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No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
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A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
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A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
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It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.