The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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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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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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