There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDo not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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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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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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