In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHERCompassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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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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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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