Sorrow makes men sincere.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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