Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Are 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?
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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