Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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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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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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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