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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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