The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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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True obedience is true freedom.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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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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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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