The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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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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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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