No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSome men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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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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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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 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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