The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue obedience is true freedom.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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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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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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