Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.
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Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.