To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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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 head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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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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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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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 unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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