Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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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 are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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