Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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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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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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