Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAre 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?
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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