The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYour greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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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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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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