Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIntelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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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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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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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 cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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