Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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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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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