It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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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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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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Some people are proud of their humility.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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