It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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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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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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