It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo man is more cheated than the selfish man.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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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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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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