The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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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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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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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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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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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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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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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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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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