The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREveryone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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