Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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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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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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