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.
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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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