We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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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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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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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