We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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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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