Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
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There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence. Henry Ward Beecher
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Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.
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We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.
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When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
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Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.